I have a question in regards to the configuration of the Enhanced Time Slider Widget. I am trying to configure the widget to use a time extent and interval that I specify. When I do this I seem to break the widget. <layer label="Surface Water Well Locations" name="Surface Water Well Locations"> <dateformat>MMMM,YYYY</dateformat> <loop>false</loop> <singlethumbastimeinstant>true</singlethumbastimeinstant> <thumbcount>1</thumbcount> <thumbmovingrate>1000</thumbmovingrate> <timeextent> <starttime>2000/01/01 05:00:00 UTC</starttime> <endtime>2010/06/01 05:00:00 UTC</endtime> </timeextent> <timestopsinterval>1</timestopsinterval> <timestopsunits>months</timestopsunits> </layer>

If I follow the same methods as the original config file the layers do display properly, but I am more interested in being able to set the time period manually. Any idea what I'm doing wrong above? Using the standard slider that comes with the Flex Viewer everything behaves as I would suspect.

I'm working with the compiled version....I don't have an IDE set up yet to work with the source code (balking at the price of Flash Builder and can't seem to figure out FlashDevelop). I understand exactly what you're saying about where the slider starts. We are using it to display well samples taken over time but want to the emphasis put on the most recent data and allow the user to go back through time if they so desire. Perhaps I can convince my manager to purchase Flash Builder. What level of the product would you suggest for Flex development?

I can add a configuration opton to this widget in the next release to start the slider at the end. As far as version of Flash Builder, you could easyly get away with just purchasing the standard version.

Very nice work. Do you thinik it would be possible to have the user select a time window instead of specifying a fixed one maybe similar to the animation in Google Earth? thanks. Brian Kaplan, CDC

Adam,

I can add a configuration opton to this widget in the next release to start the slider at the end. As far as version of Flash Builder, you could easyly get away with just purchasing the standard version.

Hi Robert, I've attached the Google Earth time slider. The half-moon looking item on the bar below the 2 am can be slide left or right and sets the width of the time window. The other item on the bar near the "11" of 11/6/2010 moves the time window. Brian

I just downloaded the Enhanced Time Slider for Flex 3.0. I am using the compiled version in the latest Viewer release. I had a question in regards to the auto-toggling. I have the widget open upon load, and it properly has the first layer on and all other's off. As I switch layers it toggles the new ones on but the other layer(s) remain on as well. I checked the live version off the widget download page and this seems to be the case there as well. Is there something in the config that will allow those layers to turn off once they are navigated away from?

Strange I just compiled the change and moved it over to my web server and the toggling on my live preview site is working fine. Do you have the name of the layer in the eTimeWidget.xml the same as the label of the layer in your main config.xml?

Okay, it is working properly. I had been viewing everything in Firefox which was causing the problem. When I looked at everything in IE all was good. Not sure if my version of Firefox is bad or if the plug-ins are out of date, but I'll just use IE or the IE tab option in Firefox. Thanks for your help!

I can add a configuration opton to this widget in the next release to start the slider at the end. As far as version of Flash Builder, you could easyly get away with just purchasing the standard version.

Hi Robert,

I wanted to ask if you might still be planning to add this as an option in the config file for this widget? I was also wondering if resetting the time slider to the beginning was a default behavior and if it was possible to maintain the current time when switching between layers.

I wanted to ask if you might still be planning to add this as an option in the config file for this widget? Yes

I was also wondering if resetting the time slider to the beginning was a default behavior and if it was possible to maintain the current time when switching between layers. It is the default of my design. It would only work to leave the slider in it's current position if the layers all had similar time extents and this will not always be the case.

I wanted to ask if you might still be planning to add this as an option in the config file for this widget? I was also wondering if resetting the time slider to the beginning was a default behavior and if it was possible to maintain the current time when switching between layers.

Sure that is possible but I don't think that most users would want that to be the default. Are you working with the source code version or the compiled version?

Hi Robert,

I finally got FlashBuilder and am looking at your eTime code. I know you said you would add an option to start at the end of the time slider, but any chance you can point me in the direction of adding that functionality myself?

Robert, I'm attempting something that maybe isn't right, so that might explain my issues... The only layer I have in my Flexviewer map is a WMS service that has time enabled. I'm assume that this is not supported in this widget?

Using the eTime widget with only one time enabled layer is not the intended use of this widget as the main purpose of this widget is to allow for multiple time enabled layers to be used. This could be the issue, I will need to test. EDIT... Nope this is not the issue, Just tested...

I was not aware that WMS layers were time aware. The Flex API makes no mention of the WMSLayer having any timeinfo or any time properties.

Thanks for looking into the WMS topic above. I have since written code to export the data out of NetCDF and then put it into a feature class in the geoDB. My current issues is that my features have a field in them called "bearing". I then rotate the symbol based upon this attribute in the mxd. However, I am noticing a couple things:

1) if I add AGS service as a whole (dynamic), I can get the features to rotate at the different time stamps, however they over post on them selves and look ugly.2) if I add the AGS service layers as features, they rotation does not occur. They do change colors but the arrows always point north.

Any ideas if this can be overcome? Side note I am using the 3.1 version of the widget currently.

Looking at your configuration there are a couple of things that stick out:

<thumbcount>5</thumbcount> Really 5 slider thumbs?... How about one or two.

<layer label="Total planned investment secured 2Years" name="Total planned investment secured 2Years"> the name attribute is the name of the layer label in the main config.xml (as outlines in the eTime slider widget tags.pdf).